inscription

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishinscriptionin‧scrip‧tion /ɪnˈskrɪpʃən/ ●○○ noun [countable]WRITEa piece of writing inscribed on a stone, in the front of a book etca Latin inscription on the memorial stone

Examples from the Corpus

inscription• We read the inscriptions on the graves, and wondered what each of those lives had been like.